Everything that dude says passes the sniff test: it seems like it could be explained as a run of the mill criminal spamming operation. The Secret Service story doesn’t offer evidence that there’s anyone extraordinary about it.
FWIW the dude also makes a number of unsupported statements that seem to be “trust me bro, I’m a hacker”. The statements aren’t outlandish, so maybe.
I find online formats have shrunk my attention span. I don’t think I’ve experienced what you describe, however.
Working in teams of two, grave diggers must put their abilities to the test by digging graves that are 2 meters long, 80 centimeters wide, and 1.6 meters deep within two hours, and then shoveling the approximately 2.5 tons of dirt back into the holes to create a neat burial mound. It sounds easy enough
No, it does not.
I expect cultural references that make sense.
They could have just said “I love the smell of burning fascists in the morning”.
“I love the smell of fascists in the morning…”
That doesn’t even make sense. Napalm, yes. Fascists tho?
I think being romantically or sexually available is an important part of the trope: that’s what takes the character from being an interesting and experienced mentor, to a weird and creepy fantasy for the writer.
The plant will generate about 880,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year—enough to help run a nearby desalination facility and supply around 220 homes. That equals the output of two soccer fields of solar panels, but osmotic power keeps running day and night, in any weather.
Piefed sounds awesome. Producing a fraction of the load with a less complicated server is awesome.
That’s an amazing track.
1-2 weeks. I’ve gotten one prescription for “everyday glasses” that never took. I basically suffered dizziness and nausea whenever I wore them.
I went back to the glasses place and got a weaker prescription.
Optometry is an art. They don’t always get it right.
I’ve heard it likened to the dot-com boom: yeah, we’ve got a tonne of e-commerce today, but the stars hadn’t aligned in early 2k.
Seems a bit early tbh. But I’ll take it.
Yeah. It’s an arms race. Any technological defense will be countered eventually. In the long run, I’m not sure a technical defense like this will be sufficient - we’ll need legal defenses that are enforced.
Weird that this is getting downvotes. It’s a legit question.
Give me a read only username and password. 😬
Thirty-ish years ago, my grandfather said he felt sorry for me because of the state of the world.
Human nature is to say things are going to shit, everything is terrible, and things were better in some non-existent past.
Yeah, things suck now. But they also sucked thirty years ago and 100 years ago. The difference is that we know the outcome to (some) of the problems people faced then. And (generally) the worst case scenario didn’t happen.
Yeah, we need to fight the rich on climate change. But we will. And we’ll mitigate the problems we can. And we’ll tell our grandkids that we don’t envy their future.
In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second. The company also provided average estimates for the water consumption and carbon emissions associated with a text prompt to Gemini.
I really enjoyed Eye of the World, and I faithfully read the next seven or eight books when they came out.
But I tried to read it again a few years ago and it didn’t keep my interest.
The Wired story says the same thing but with more context and less “trust me, bro”.
They are both interesting reads.